Lorex

Lorex is a Markham, Ontario-based maker of home and small-business security cameras known for local-recording systems — wired PoE and Wi-Fi cameras paired with on-premise NVRs and DVRs — marketed on the absence of required monthly cloud subscriptions. The brand was previously owned by FLIR and then, from 2018, by Chinese surveillance giant Dahua Technology. In November 2022 Dahua divested Lorex to Skywatch, a Taiwan-based company, for about $72 million, a sale framed as separating Lorex from Chinese state-linked ownership. That separation remains contested: on February 19, 2026 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Lorex under the state's Deceptive Trade Practices Act, alleging its cameras and baby monitors remain manufactured, sourced, and serviced by Dahua, a firm linked to the Chinese Communist Party — leaving Lorex's true independence from Chinese ownership disputed.